What looks like having fun and innocent smiles,
Is in fact war stories told by a child.They laugh and get exited and want to tell their side,
On how the bomb fell near them and how their dad died.
As a much older person I felt so small,
Cause a much smaller human survived a war.
A war they had no fault to fight,
A war that knew nothing of children rights.
Zainab, Osama, Khalid and Bana I'll never forget your names,
Translating your stories was an experience from which I'll never be the same.